5 Common Myths About History—Debunked

As the Housum Professor of History at Yale University, Timothy Snyder knows that understanding the past can help us make sense of current world events. “As historians, we’re professionally concerned with ascertaining the truth, and that’s all the more important in the political world in which we’re all now moving,” Snyder said at Chang School Talks, a series presented at Ryerson University in Toronto. “Politics now is much less about right and left, and much more about truth and anti-truth.” To drive his message home, Snyder shared five common myths about history, and why they’re bunk.